Card game adjunct



June 13, 1933. F. E. HoLLlNs CARD GAME ADJUNCT Filed July 6. 1932 AricA Patented .lime 13, 1933 PATEN'rfol-FICE L rnnnnnrci; n. nonmrisor WINCHESTEL MASSACHUSETTS v0111x115 GAME Amener Appncaaonl mea my e, 193e; seran 1ro. 621,035.

The object of this inventionis to provide an improved adjunct for use in card games such as duplicate whist to segregate the card hands that have been played by one group V of players, and permit the use of the same hands by another group.

A particular object is to provide an adjunct adapted to be opened to expose the card hands, and compactly folded so that the hands may be stored side by side in an ordinary card case of a size slightly exceeding that of a case intended to contain a pack, or

declrof cards. n.

Of the accompanying drawing formlng a part of thisspecificationr- Figure 1 is a perspective View showing my improved adjunct opened.

Figure 2 is a perspective View showing the adjunct partly closed.

Z9 Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectlonal view `on the plane indicated by line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a perspectiveview showing the adjunct completely closed and adapted to be stored in a card case.`

Figures and 6 areV perspective views showing two of the swinging trays hereinafter described. e Y j Figure 7 Vis a fragmentary sectional View on the plane indicated'by line 77 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the tray coniiner hereinafter described.

Figures 9 and 10Show parts of the tray continer in perspective.

Figure 11 is a perspective view Showing" the adjunct closed and inserted in a card case.

The same reference characters represent the same parts in all of the figures.

The tray confining member shown separately `by Figure 8 is oblong and rectangular and is a shallow hollow box. `The preferred coniner includes an oblong frame composed of longitudinal side members 12, and transverse end members 13, said frame being preferably an aluminum casting, a flat bottom which may be cast with the frame, and a flat top piece 16 having parallel beveled edges 17engaged with beveled or undercut guides` 1 8 on theupper Side of the frame members 12, `the top piece being slidable on the frame to, and from the operativejpositionshcwnby Figure 8. j l

In the mid lengthportions of the end mem 155 bers 13 are formed slot portions 19 which i open into slot portions 20 formed in the top piece 16, andextending obliquely inward, the v slotportions20 having: closed ends 2,1 located at opposite sides of the mid length of the topplece. Y i The adjunct comprises four trays arranged inpairs, the trays of one pair being designated by 22, and those-of the other pairby 23. Each tray is adapted to cnfine and eX- 195 pose one side of a card hand 24.`

,j Each tray has at itsinner end a card hand confining member 25, and at itsouter end a slot 26 i permitting Vremoval of the `card hand by athumb and linger. i `z` 7'7 Connections are provided between the coniner and the trays, permitting the trays to lie in the same plane with the confiner, and radiate therefrom as shown by Figure 1, and to be gathered on and upstand: from ,the top face of the confiner, side by side, as shown by Figure 4. i The preferred connections between the trays 22 and the coniner are embodied in the 86 slot portions ;19 and 2O in the confiner, and

trunnions 29,;projecting from the inner ends ofV the trays `22, said trunnions having portions 19 `When `the top piece 16 is .moved 85 endwise romthe operative. position Shown by Figure 8, `and are pr'evented from withdrawal by the heads 30 and the top `piece when the latter-,is moved .back to said operative 90 position. i y i` ,i j i The described `connections, `permit the upward swinging of the trays 22, the trunnions moving into the Slot portions 20 untilthey abut the closed ends `21` thereof, and being then partly rotatedtolocate the trays 22 in "95 the upstanding position shown-byFigure 2, the trays 22 beingr` gathered side by side.

The connections between the trays 23 and the confiner are embodied in hinge pintles 32 projecting from the-end members 13 of the coniner, and resilient hinge ears B3 on the inner ends of the trays 23, said ears being sprung onto the pintles 32, so that hinges are provided permitting the upward swinging of the trays 23 until they abut the upstanding trays 22, as shown by Figure 4.

The four trays are thus gathered so that they constitute a compact body adapted to be stored in a card case 35, as shown by Figure 11.

The trays are made of thin sheet metal, and their depth is such that when they are gathered the thickness of the body formedV thereby only slightly exceeds the thickness of a pack of cards. The area 'of the top surface of the coniner corresponds to the aggregate 'area of lthe inner ends of the trays when the trays are gathered as shown by Figure 4. e

After the described parts are assembled the top piece 16 of the coniiner may be rigidly secured in any suitable manner so that it is immovable Vrelative to the frame, for example, a slight indentation may be made by a prick punch in one, or both,ofthe frame `members 12 in such manner` as to displace some vof the frame metal into notches 38, Figure 9, in the top piece.

I claim: Y I Y l. A card game adjunct comprising four trays adapted to separately confine the four hands of a card pack, avrectangular oblong tray coniner having atop face whose area corresponds to ther aggregate areas of the in- A ner ends of said trays when they .are gathered side by side, and connections `between the trays and 'the confiner permitting the trays to 'lie in the Asame 'plane with the confiner and radiate therefrom, and to be gathered on and upstandfrom the topface of the coniner side lby side, the coniner andthe gathered trays constitutin'ga compact 4body adapted to he storedin a card case.

2. A card game adjunct comprising four trays adapted to separately confine the four hands of a card pack, a rectangular oblong tray confiner having a top :face Iwhose area corresponds to the aggregate areas of the inner ends of said trays when they are gathered side by side; connections -between two of the trays andthe coniner permitting said trays to extend in opposite directions from the opposite end edges of i-the coniineri, and'to be gathered on thetop side thereof and stand side by side thereon, said connections including headed trunnions on saidrtrays, and guiding slots in the coniner ends and top in which said trunnions are movable and'adapted to turn, and hinges connecting the other two .trays with the confiner and permitting said trays to extend in opposite directions' from the oppositey side edgesof the confiner, and to be gathered on and upstand from the top face thereof beside the `irst mentioned trays.

l3. A card game adjunct as specified by claim 2, said confiner being hollow and comsignature.

FREDERICK E. HOLLINS. 

